And if you had any musical sense or rhythm, you would have noticed the painfully obvious fact that they were dancing off beat.

Which years later… You’ll discover that the music was actually dubbed over because Red Bull didn’t buy the copyrights to the original tracks.

I’m not suggesting that Hong 10 and Lilou are wack dancers that don’t dance to the music, nor that Red Bull is screwed up for not purchasing them copyrights.

What I’m saying is…

If that was your first impression of bboy music…

Congratulations! You are not the ONLY ONE.

The Songs That Revolutionized the 20th Century

Frustrating, isn’t it?

When you just started to learn breaking, and swam into a sea of unknown, you realised one crucial fact:

You didn’t know what type of music bboys danced to!

As you headed down to practice to try your first ever 6-step, you didn’t know what music to play.

Was it pop music? How about EDM? Maybe hip hop?

Feeling lost, you plugged in the audio jack of your speakers into your phone, and pressed shuffle to initiate that training session…

Rihanna.

She can’t sing, she can’t dance but who cares… She walks like rihanna. Oh wait.

I mean, how could you have known..? How could anybody? Growing up in the modern generation… Funk was a relatively unknown and unpopular genre. And let’s not even talk about jazz. Not to mention salsa and good ol’ James Brown.

The worse thing was,

We didn’t have anybody or anyplace to ask.

And, there wasn’t any way to know which are the genres or songs that bboys and bgirls dance to.

There wasn’t any way to know which are the classic songs that everyone should know and learn by heart.

After all, these are the songs that started off the entire hip hop culture.

These are the songs that inspired the original dancers to react and move their bodies – forming the foundation of breaking.

YET,

It’s as if someone told you that there were bricks available around you for you to build your house. But you didn’t know where the hell those bricks were lying about!